Word: inroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first line of defense is its capacity to retaliate, combined with the ability to intercept and detonate an enemy's guided missiles before they can damage the U.S. proper. But beyond that was a vital area where serious exploration has made little if any inroad in public consciousness. Prime question: What can shelters do to protect people in all-out thermonuclear...
...recent education has almost deified an attitude of suspended judgment, blind to the fact that while suspended judgment may be possible in matters of opinion or unfinished scientific research, it is not possible on any deeper level of life. We may suspend judgment . . . about the cause of the sudden inroad of lamprey eels in Lake Michigan, but we cannot suspend judgment on whether to steal or be honest, or on whether man is a mechanism or a soul...
...China's administrators being incorruptible-Communist papers are always decrying the inroad of corruption in the ranks of Red administrators . . . Tax collectors are constantly stealing grain from the taxes they collect. Judges have stolen the rings, watches, fountain pens and money of the prisoners they have condemned to the gun-the symbol and cause of Red China's efficiency...